An Old English poet or minstrel.
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| 释义 | society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by period > [noun] > bard (12) scopc888 An Old English poet or minstrel. leoth-scopc1275 a poet. minstrel?a1300 Originally (to the end of the 16th cent.): a person employed by a patron to provide entertainment by singing, playing music, storytelling… bard1623 Applied to the early versifying minstrels or poets of other nations, before the use of writing, as the Old English gleeman, Scandinavian scald, etc. Subcategories:— bardship (1) — Celtic bard (2) — chief bard (1) — Eisteddfodic graduate (1) — winner of Eisteddfod competition (3) |
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